Insurance
New Jersey hoping an amnesty approach on Medicaid fraud might work
New Jersey is trying a pilot program that will allow Ocean County residents who fraudently obtained Medicaid to avoid prosecution if they ...
7 years ago
Rehearsing transgender healthcare
Medical students learn trans care in the classroom and the exam room. Bianca Leigh is playing a character named Tia Lopez. ...
7 years ago
ListenCan Republicans give Americans with disabilities the health insurance reform they need?
Insurance coverage for health care in America needs reform, especially for those on Medicaid. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA) de ...
7 years ago
Insurance companies are part of the opioid addiction problem
At first, I just felt very anxious, but anxiety soon led to physical shaking. My stomach felt like someone who weighed 300 pounds was sta ...
7 years ago
Toomey’s health care tax cut costs Pennsylvania up to $4.8 billion per year
The health care bill in the U.S. Senate is very much like the one in the House, but in one respect it is far worse, thanks to Pennsylvani ...
7 years ago
The dangers of replacing Obamacare with the Republican health care bill
How can we live in a modern society — what some would call the greatest country in the world — and not provide health care as a right ...
7 years ago
With deadline looming, Senators call for revamp of National Flood Insurance system
In a deeply partisan period in Washington, New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has joined a bi-partisan group of high-profile senators calling f ...
8 years ago
Ody: Returning to Indonesia 15 years later, and nearly blind
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks that looks at the personal ...
8 years ago
Listen 4:51Health care must be provided communally
Every once in a while, when I write something in defense of the Affordable Care Act, or point out that repealing it will lead 1.1 million ...
8 years ago
The ACA protects all of us, whether we know it or not
When people complain about premiums being higher under the Affordable Care Act, they don’t realize that they also need the new prot ...
8 years ago
How much was your flu shot? WHYY’s PriceCheck wants to know
The start of flu season means lots of ads and public health reminders about the importance of getting a flu shot. Manufacturers are makin ...
9 years ago
ListenWHYY’s PriceCheck — Frequently asked questions
Q: What is this project? A: Glad you asked. We’d like you to share your health care prices to help build this c ...
10 years ago
WHYY’s Pricecheck: Share your medical bill, make health costs transparent
Please fill out the form below to help us and our partner, ClearHealthCosts.com, make health care costs more transparent. (It may take th ...
10 years ago